Dirt Cheap - Do It Yourself Housing

Super Adobe, the wonderfully elegant earth building system. See the CalEarth link on the right. The answer to the world wide housing problem. This is the EcoDome, a lovely home built of earth. Here are Steve and Carol, building a retaining wall with the same technique. They are putting the earth and cement mixture into the tube to form the wall. You can almost see the strands of barbed wire between the courses. It is like a clay coil pot, with barbed wire for glue.